SNATCHED AWAY TOO SOON

The second wave of coronavirus has been especially virulent and fatal. Like other professions, the judiciary too has lost many stalwarts to the pandemic

- Abhinav Verma

Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country last year, many have succumbed to it. The legal fraternity too has lost many people, including thousands of advocates. Some of the eminent personalities who lost their lives to corona are:

SOLI JEHANGIR

Sorabjee was a veteran lawyer and Pad ma Vibhushan recipient. He was 91 and was being treated at a private hospital in South Delhi. Born in Mumbai in 1930, Sorabjee started practising law in 1953 at the Bombay High Court. He was designated senior counsel by the Supreme Court in 1971. He became attorney general first in 1989 and then from 1998 to 2004. He was a passionate human rights lawyer and was also appointed a UN Special Rapporteur for Nigeria in 1997.

SOLI SORABJEE Former Attorney General of India, April 30, 2021

MY EQBAL

Justice Eqbal started his legal practice in 1975 in Ranchi. He was elevated to the bench in May 1996 as a judge of the Patna High Court. Later, with the formation of Jharkhand in 2000, he became a judge of the Jharkhand High Court.

In 2003, he was nominated by then Chief Justice of India VN Khare as one of the members of the Ravi and Beas Water Tribunal to deal with water disputes between Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan. In his home state, he held the post of chairman, Jharkhand Human Rights Commission, executive chairman of Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority and judge-in-charge of the state’s Judicial Academy. He was appointed chief justice of the Madras High Court in June 2010.

MY EQBAL Former Supreme Court judge, May 7, 2021

RAJEEV BANSAL

Senior Advocate, May 17, 2021